{"id":10424,"date":"2014-06-30T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2014-06-30T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:16:35","slug":"what-passes-for-republican-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10424","title":{"rendered":"What passes for Republican leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just how big of a tool is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/senator\/dean-g-skelos\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Skelos<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/06\/30\/republicans-campaign-against-gov-cuomo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Very<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Senate insiders describe GOP leader Dean Skelos as initially \u201cstunned\u2019\u2019 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10412\">Cuomo\u2019s action<\/a> in moving the IDC to the regular Democrats\u2019 side, even though the governor vowed to do just that a month ago in exchange for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/01\/nyregion\/cuomo-secures-support-of-working-families-party.html\" target=\"_blank\">WFP\u2019s endorsement<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cSkelos didn\u2019t want to believe what Cuomo was doing.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t want to face an obvious reality, until last week, when he didn\u2019t have a choice any longer,\u2019\u2019 a longtime Senate Republican told The Post &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D10424&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10424\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10424\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10424\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how big of a tool is Dean Skelos? 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